SIOP’s Program Lineup for the 25th Anniversary Annual Conference
Sara P. Weiner
Program Chair, SIOP 2010 Conference
Kenexa
The 2010 SIOP conference program in Atlanta will be outstanding! The Program Committee has been working since the last conference to assemble a compelling mix of critical I-O topics into Theme Tracks, Friday Seminars, Communities of Interest, featured speakers, and other special events. And of course, the centerpiece of our conference is the hundreds of high-quality, peer-reviewed sessions addressing I-O psychology research, practice, theory, and teaching-oriented content. Below is a summary of the program followed by details on the Theme Tracks, Friday Seminars, Master Collaborations, and Communities of Interest. (Note: SIOP is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SIOP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.)
Theme Tracks
Theme tracks are conferences within a conference, delving deep into a cutting-edge topic or trend and are designed to appeal to practitioners and academics. For each theme there will be multiple integrated sessions (e.g., invited speakers, panels, debates) scheduled back-to-back throughout the day in the same room. You may stay all day to take advantage of the comprehensive programming and obtain continuing education credits for participation in the full track, or you may also choose to attend just the sessions of most interest to you.
- Thursday Theme: Exploring the Potential and Pitfalls of Virtually Connected Work (5.25 CE credits)
- Saturday Theme: Reengineering I-O Psychology for the Changing World of Work (5.5 CE credits)
Friday Seminars
The Friday Seminars are invited sessions that focus on cutting-edge topics presented by prominent thought leaders. The Friday Seminars offer CE credits and require advance registration and an additional fee. This year’s seminars will present the following topics:
- When Begging Is Not Enough: Detecting and Dealing With Nonresponse Bias to Organizational Surveys
- Self-Regulation in Work: The Why, Where, and How of Motivation
- At Odds Over Adverse Impact: Perils and Pitfalls in Statistical Reasoning Involving Discrimination
- Proactivity at Work: Applying Positive Psychology to Organizations
Master Collaboration Session
To further the collaborations between science and practice, two subjects will be presented in the Master Collaboration Sessions, each by a leading researcher and a leading practitioner:
- A Practitioner–Academic Collaboration to Drive Safety Gains at a Large Service Organization. J. Craig Wallace, Oklahoma State, and Shane Douthitt, SMD, LLC
- Executive Coaching: A Practitioner–Academic Collaboration to Investigate Differential Outcomes. Bart Craig, North Carolina State, and Adam Ortiz, Executive Leadership Consulting
Communities of Interest (COI) sessions
There will be 12 outstanding Community of Interest (COI) sessions designed to create new communities around common themes or interests. These sessions have no chair, presenters, or discussant. Instead, they are informally moderated by one or two facilitators. Attend if you would like to (a) meet potential collaborators, (b) generate new ideas, (c) have stimulating conversations, and/or (d) develop an informal network with other like-minded SIOP members. See page 123 for a complete list.
Featured Posters
We will showcase the top 26 rated posters at an evening all-conference reception. Come view some of the best submissions to the conference in a relaxed setting with the presenters.
Friday Invited Addresses
In our continuing efforts to expand and strengthen the relationship between SIOP and the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP), Arnold Bakker, president of EAWOP, will join us at SIOP, and his invited address is entitled “Engaged Employees Create Their own Great Place to Work.”
Continuing the Volunteer Tradition
The plans for a postconference volunteer activity in Atlanta are underway.
In addition, we also would like to encourage continued donations to the Make It Right Foundation to build homes for Hurricane Katrina victims in the 9th Ward in New Orleans. The total raised since the conference in New Orleans is an astounding $22,000. To make a donation go to www.makeitrightnola.org, click “Donate Now,” click “Make Donation,” complete the requested information, and select “The House the SIOP Built” from the pull-down menu in the Team-Sponsored Home Options.
Acknowledgments
The annual conference is an incredible team effort involving hundreds of volunteers. I am in awe of the dedication of our Program Committee members. There are key individuals in leadership roles whom I would like to acknowledge: Past-Program Chair John Scott has been an astute and patient mentor and continues to have a guiding hand in shaping the 2010 conference, and Program Chair-in-Training Mariangela Battista has taken on her new role with great energy and skill in her capacity this year of organizing the Saturday Theme Track. John, Mariangela, and I also worked to assign four reviewers each to the nearly 1,300 submissions (about 1,200 reviewers signed up). We also then scheduled the invited sessions and accepted peer-reviewed sessions into the many concurrent sessions available during the conference. We all sincerely appreciate the efforts of all reviewers who contributed their time in this peer-review process to ensure the quality of our conference. I would also like to thank the other Program Subcommittee chairs who contribute their expertise and significant time to their respective responsibilities: Shawn Burke (Thursday Theme Track), Chu-Hsiang (Daisy) Chang (Friday Seminars), Eden King (Call for Proposals and Flanagan Award), Scott Mondore (Master Collaboration), and Linda Shanock (Communities of Interest and Interactive Posters). As always, none of this would be possible without the outstanding coordination and efforts of SIOP Executive Director David Nershi and the outstanding Administrative Office staff. Finally, Steven Rogelberg deserves substantial kudos for his work 3 years ago to assist in the development of customized SIOP software designed to automate the assignments to appropriate reviewers and schedule the program. Incredible effort, planning, thoughtfulness, time, and patience were required to develop this software in collaboration with a programmer while simultaneously serving in his capacity as Program chair that year. All future Program chairs should pay homage, and all past chairs understand why!
The following articles focus on details of the incredible programming awaiting you at our next SIOP conference. We hope to see you in Atlanta!